Remember all those amazing designs of Eastpak bags we kept posting over the last few weeks? Well, today is an exciting day for us as we’re going to be attending the International Finissage of the third edition for the Eastpak Artist Studio!

That’s right, Movember. For those of you who never heard of this awesome event, I’d like to introduce you to the Mo movement and to inform you guys about what it is and what’s coming up next month.Because this is an event of raising social awareness and any good cause is a good cause!

As you might have noticed, here at DAA we are more and more interested in movies - and with good reason, since our last achievement at the MIKRO Festival of Belgrade with our own short movie N.I.P.P.L.E.!

As many DAA supporters know, we have been helping the Bali Kids charity (www.balikids.org) since a few years by raising funds for them both in Bali and here in Belgium-for instance, with our Pop Up Shop in Antwerp's City Hall, we raised 526 euros that Bali Kids will spend to paint the recreation room of their new building, buy bean bags for the children to sit on and decorate it in a fun & colourful way.

Closing benefit event "KNITTING AGAINST AIDS" (curated by Marina Yee) in Brussels, where hand knitted scarves and other exclusive and individual hand made pieces will be auctioned to help support various HIV/AIDS charities (text below in French and Flemish only)

Plans for World AIDS Day on the 1st of December?The ever theatrical De Roma in Borgerhout Antwerp is holding a World AIDS Day concert on the 1st of December from 8:30pm.Performers include Roland,HelmutLotti,RoyAernouts,Sioen,FlipKowlierand AmandaStrydom (South Africa) knownfor hersongsagainst theapartheid system.

On november 27 the 2011 edition of Antwerp Diner takes place at Stuurboord and it promises to be bigger & better than ever before, with master chefs from well-known restaurants creating wonderful dishes, artists giving the best of themselves and the Antwerp Diner team trying to raise as much funds as possible for three charities:

Classical Theatre of Harlem & The Hip Hop Theater Festival present
The Off-Broadway & World Premiere of SEEDA New Play by Radha Blank, directed by Neigel Smith
"Radha Blank's provocative play SEED is brought to vivid life by a dynamic cast." - TheaterMania.com
"The questions this play asks about race, social status, education, and family make it an important piece of theater." - Backstage CRITIC'S PICKBurnt-out social worker Anne Colleen Simpson decides to leave the field on a high note, with a book detailing her career, but when Chee-Chee, a gifted twelve-year-old from the ‘projects’ collides into her life, she’s forced to confront his young mother and the shadows of her past.